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Houston Part One: Oil Boom to Bust
Beyond the Hedges
English - October 27, 2020 14:18 - 48 minutes - 22.2 MBEducation lifelonglearning education rice riceuniversity Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the first episode of this three-part series, Stephen Klineberg discusses the research found in his book “Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America,” covering the early days of Houston up until the oil bust in 1982. Klineberg is a professor emeritus of sociology at Rice and the founding director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research. His surveys of Houston over the last 40 years have captured the city’s transformation, and why Houston, as he puts it, “is where, for better or worse, the future of our nation is going to be worked out.”